Language:
English
Year of publication:
2019
Titel der Quelle:
Aramaic Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
17,2 (2019) 198-255
Keywords:
Piyyutim History and criticism
;
Aramaic poetry History and criticism
;
Aramaic poetry Translations into English
;
Purim Liturgy
;
Manuscripts, Aramaic
;
Cairo Genizah
;
Polemics in literature
Abstract:
This article presents a critical edition of three Aramaic piyyutim for Purim. The piyyutim are unique in that they were not written in Hebrew, the overwhelmingly dominant language of classical piyyutim, but in a biblicizing register of Aramaic. This puts these piyyutim in conversation with other forms of Jewish Aramaic poetry, namely poems written in Jewish Palestinian Aramaic (JPA). The article includes a detailed analysis of the relation between the JPA poems for Purim and the piyyutim presented herein, and it argues that overt anti-Christian polemics are common to both. The Aramaic piyyutim presented here thus provide a unique nexus between JPA poetry and classical piyyut.
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